Scotland implodes
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:44 pm
For anyone who doesn't understand why the British (English?) are typically right wing and cherish the fact we do politics differently to our European neighbours, Scotland is currently a really rather hilarious example of what the British left are capable of.
Under the benevolent reign of Queen Elizabeth II, we decided to throw the always really quite whingy Scots a bone and let them have a Parliament and Government of their own. it's not quite freeeedom, but they can mow their own grass and shit. Like Florida. That was 1999.
Because they like to feel special, going against centuries of tradition, their Parliament uses that continental system that is supposed to be fairer. It was also supposed to prevent the Scottish nationalists from gaining an absolute majority. Because y'know, they might have invaded England.
You kinda new this would be a failure, because it was the brain child of left wing politicians. And it was. With their extraordinary talent for political failure, the left led hand holding coalitions of Scotland oversaw three terms with a reduced majority each time, the third defeat opening the door to a minority nationalist government. Which they then turned into an absolute majority in 2007. It has been that way until the 2020s.
So in less than a decade, the British left had effectively lost part of our country to a party that hates our country. Good job! But it wasn't all bad. In this context, the nationalists are actually to the left of the British left. Pinkos in tartan. Sexy.
Unsurprisingly, because they're also left wing, they fucked it up too. Not only did their primary mission, independence, fail, their social record was a failure. What a shock. By the 2020s, they were having to rely on the support of the Greens. Which is normal for Europe, but decidedly weird for the UK, where the Greens are seen as deeply deluded, a tiny fringe party. Which under the Scotland means they're a slightly bigger tiny party. Now the king makers.
This doesn't mean the rest of the UK is a threat to the environment. Because the UK right wing are true democrats, when there is the public support, they integrate green policies into their agenda. Net zero targets are now in law. Under a right wing government. Not sure why this approach hasn't occurred to the left, but they never do make much sense.
So yeah, the Scottish left tried to paint this nationalist-green partnership as a new dawn in politics. Touchy feely. Partnership. Cooperation. Blah blah. The left does love to message. Not so great with results.
The result? They fucked it up. Their always gobby leader resigned unexpectedly, soon explained by the fact she had been arrested under suspicion of embezzlement of party funds. So left wing. Depite their strong position, she'd been quite the demagogue, centralizing power, very paranoid. So very left. Debunking the myth women can do politics better. Oh, and she had also prosecuted her male predecessor and former mentor for rape. It was thrown out as a total joke. He's now understandably started a splinter party, further endangering the nationalists majority. So very left.
So unsurprisingly, her replacement has been in a weak position, on the back foot, ever since he as appointed in March 2023. His genius idea was to double down on the woke agenda introduced by his predecessor. And double down on her already doomed independence push.
He has been a complete and total failure. And because the left can't run a country for shit, their chickens have come home to roost. They'd been buying votes by giving away free shit for years. Free drugs. Free travel. Free college. While also making a total balls up of building ferries in their newly nationalised shipyards. Corruption, over budget, delays, obvious huge expensive job creation scheme is obvious. So very left (especially in the UK, where nationalised industry is a byword for failure).
The projected economic boom has not materialised. Now they can't pay their bills. Massive black hole in their budget. It evidently came as some surprise to them that with the power to set the budget, comes the responsibility of paying the bills.
The first casualty? Green commitments. Massively costly.
The second casualty? Woke shit (also beloved by the Greens). Get ordinary voters back on side.
So to make it happen, the nationalist-green partnership has been dissolved.
Now the government is in peril.
A vote of no confidence is in motion. So the figurehead of Scottish independence, who had gone all in on an independence strategy tied to the next UK and Scottish elections as de facto referendums (he was never really clear which!), is now unlikely to even be the leader for those elections.
So now nobody has a clue what's going to happen, short or long term, due to the inherent instability of the continental model. The left are making hypocritical calls for an election NOW because this joke of a leader was never actually elected, knowing fine well this is (or would be for the rise of nationalism it spawned) is exactly how the Scottish system they designed is meant to work. Group hugs and kumbaya, right?
It's hilarious.
This won't be the end of the fun either. For Scotland, it probably just means a return to the original left wing coalitions of the late 90s. Like that's going to work now that they don't have any money or even hope.
The truly funny part. It's highly likely the right will lose the next UK election. Run out of steam and ideas, even of basic legitimacy. Worth nothing that this is precisely because they went against what works in the UK system and deposed a leader elected with a huge majority, for internal short term small time almost petty reasons. Twice they've done that in the last 50 years, and both times it has led to their least successful periods, whether in or out of government. It also ultimately gave us Tony Blair, who gave us the Iraq War, and this batshit Scottish system.
But it's mad shit like this Scottish farce of the last decade in particular, economic incompetence and driving through super woke shit and radical green shit that doesn't actually have broad support even among the left, is exactly what usually scares floating voters into veering to the right.
And that will really piss off the Scots, because they have for thirteen years been hoping to be able to leverage the possibly of a nationalist and UK left coalition to have a do-over on independence. Another reason floating voters often veer right. Brits (English) are very patriotic.
Scotland arguably needs to be independent to truly fulfil their apparent popular wish to be a very progressive country. But because they're so shit at fighting (contrary to popular myth) and also so shit at whipping up the enthusiasm of a crowd of ordinary common folk for political gain (contrary to Hollywood myth), well, they're just going to have to sit down, shut up, eat their wheeties, and maybe one day they'll be grown up enough to be allowed to play outside on their own.
Under the benevolent reign of Queen Elizabeth II, we decided to throw the always really quite whingy Scots a bone and let them have a Parliament and Government of their own. it's not quite freeeedom, but they can mow their own grass and shit. Like Florida. That was 1999.
Because they like to feel special, going against centuries of tradition, their Parliament uses that continental system that is supposed to be fairer. It was also supposed to prevent the Scottish nationalists from gaining an absolute majority. Because y'know, they might have invaded England.
You kinda new this would be a failure, because it was the brain child of left wing politicians. And it was. With their extraordinary talent for political failure, the left led hand holding coalitions of Scotland oversaw three terms with a reduced majority each time, the third defeat opening the door to a minority nationalist government. Which they then turned into an absolute majority in 2007. It has been that way until the 2020s.
So in less than a decade, the British left had effectively lost part of our country to a party that hates our country. Good job! But it wasn't all bad. In this context, the nationalists are actually to the left of the British left. Pinkos in tartan. Sexy.
Unsurprisingly, because they're also left wing, they fucked it up too. Not only did their primary mission, independence, fail, their social record was a failure. What a shock. By the 2020s, they were having to rely on the support of the Greens. Which is normal for Europe, but decidedly weird for the UK, where the Greens are seen as deeply deluded, a tiny fringe party. Which under the Scotland means they're a slightly bigger tiny party. Now the king makers.
This doesn't mean the rest of the UK is a threat to the environment. Because the UK right wing are true democrats, when there is the public support, they integrate green policies into their agenda. Net zero targets are now in law. Under a right wing government. Not sure why this approach hasn't occurred to the left, but they never do make much sense.
So yeah, the Scottish left tried to paint this nationalist-green partnership as a new dawn in politics. Touchy feely. Partnership. Cooperation. Blah blah. The left does love to message. Not so great with results.
The result? They fucked it up. Their always gobby leader resigned unexpectedly, soon explained by the fact she had been arrested under suspicion of embezzlement of party funds. So left wing. Depite their strong position, she'd been quite the demagogue, centralizing power, very paranoid. So very left. Debunking the myth women can do politics better. Oh, and she had also prosecuted her male predecessor and former mentor for rape. It was thrown out as a total joke. He's now understandably started a splinter party, further endangering the nationalists majority. So very left.
So unsurprisingly, her replacement has been in a weak position, on the back foot, ever since he as appointed in March 2023. His genius idea was to double down on the woke agenda introduced by his predecessor. And double down on her already doomed independence push.
He has been a complete and total failure. And because the left can't run a country for shit, their chickens have come home to roost. They'd been buying votes by giving away free shit for years. Free drugs. Free travel. Free college. While also making a total balls up of building ferries in their newly nationalised shipyards. Corruption, over budget, delays, obvious huge expensive job creation scheme is obvious. So very left (especially in the UK, where nationalised industry is a byword for failure).
The projected economic boom has not materialised. Now they can't pay their bills. Massive black hole in their budget. It evidently came as some surprise to them that with the power to set the budget, comes the responsibility of paying the bills.
The first casualty? Green commitments. Massively costly.
The second casualty? Woke shit (also beloved by the Greens). Get ordinary voters back on side.
So to make it happen, the nationalist-green partnership has been dissolved.
Now the government is in peril.
A vote of no confidence is in motion. So the figurehead of Scottish independence, who had gone all in on an independence strategy tied to the next UK and Scottish elections as de facto referendums (he was never really clear which!), is now unlikely to even be the leader for those elections.
So now nobody has a clue what's going to happen, short or long term, due to the inherent instability of the continental model. The left are making hypocritical calls for an election NOW because this joke of a leader was never actually elected, knowing fine well this is (or would be for the rise of nationalism it spawned) is exactly how the Scottish system they designed is meant to work. Group hugs and kumbaya, right?
It's hilarious.
This won't be the end of the fun either. For Scotland, it probably just means a return to the original left wing coalitions of the late 90s. Like that's going to work now that they don't have any money or even hope.
The truly funny part. It's highly likely the right will lose the next UK election. Run out of steam and ideas, even of basic legitimacy. Worth nothing that this is precisely because they went against what works in the UK system and deposed a leader elected with a huge majority, for internal short term small time almost petty reasons. Twice they've done that in the last 50 years, and both times it has led to their least successful periods, whether in or out of government. It also ultimately gave us Tony Blair, who gave us the Iraq War, and this batshit Scottish system.
But it's mad shit like this Scottish farce of the last decade in particular, economic incompetence and driving through super woke shit and radical green shit that doesn't actually have broad support even among the left, is exactly what usually scares floating voters into veering to the right.
And that will really piss off the Scots, because they have for thirteen years been hoping to be able to leverage the possibly of a nationalist and UK left coalition to have a do-over on independence. Another reason floating voters often veer right. Brits (English) are very patriotic.
Scotland arguably needs to be independent to truly fulfil their apparent popular wish to be a very progressive country. But because they're so shit at fighting (contrary to popular myth) and also so shit at whipping up the enthusiasm of a crowd of ordinary common folk for political gain (contrary to Hollywood myth), well, they're just going to have to sit down, shut up, eat their wheeties, and maybe one day they'll be grown up enough to be allowed to play outside on their own.